Excerpt from The American Practitioner, 1876, Vol. 13: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery Before concluding that such a pulse denotes a functional disorder of the heart it must be determined that it is not a normal peculiarity. Some healthy persons have a notably frequent pulse; and without knowledge Of this peculiarity, when it is observed in a patient, needless anxiety may be caused by regarding it as a morbid symptom. I Will Cite a case which, as I suppose, illustrates this remark. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.